Science Etcetera JD 2454435

December 1st, 2007

What Lies Behind our Nose?
Credit: Kai-hung Fung,
Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital

I linked to this before, but I’ll link again for emphasis. Check out the National Science Foundation’s Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge, there’s several years worth of photos and illustrations to browse. There’s also videos, but they’re in realtime format, and realtime is for mutants and farm animals.

BOOOOO!!! Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton will Cut Space Program Funding, while, ironically, religious-right Republican Mike Huckabee would increase it… so long as the scientists don’t disprove god or the bible or anything like that.

Geek Term: Meatspace, refers to the real world, where life is so much more drab and uninteresting.

Gatorade inventor Dr. Robert Cade passed away last week. His question, “Why don’t football players wee-wee after a game?” set off the
saga of the world’s best-selling sports drink.

LiveScience has a Time Lapse Video of San Diego Fire covering seven days.

McKinsey & Company has issued a report detailing how the U.S. could Cut 28% of Greenhouse Gases, while the Black Balloons in this commercial really illustrate CO₂ emissions: